Okay, so you have selected a vendor to provide you with online backup. I have picked SOS Online Backup. If you picked someone else, that does not affect my suggestions.
You have in mind exactly what you want to backup. It might be a long list of folders, or it might be something as simple as "MY DOCUMENTS", which of course contains many other folders.
I suggest you start small. Simply pick one rather small folder and its contents to be backed up and then go ahead and run your first backup. The reason I suggest starting small is to familiarize yourself with the software and how it works. Watch it work, displaying as much information as your vendor will allow. In fact, watch it from start to finish. See how it works and try to understand it. When it is finished save the information that has been presented to you by the backup program. You can use this as a check to make sure everything worked okay.
Once finished, take a look at the vendor's server where your data has been backed up. Open up your data folder on the server and review its contents. If you have to, manually count the items that were backed up and then compare this to the folder on your system that you just backed up.
Do you have a match? Contents of the folder on your machine match exactly the contents of the folder on the server? They should be the same.
If you find this explanation to be too complicated, please call me and I will step you through it. It is very important that you get off on the right foot.
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